Views from the Sieve

NickMurphy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2019 8:36 pm The lack of communication when it comes to injured players is - and long has been - a joke. I've been told before that the club hold this information back so as to not give the opposition an advantage when they're preparing to play us. If true, it's a load of bollocks.

Not only does it treat us supporters like mugs, it also doesn't make a blind bit of difference because whether or not the opposition know who/when players are coming back, we're losing games anyway.

It's been a long-standing problem and probably one of the most annoying things about the club aside from the current performances on the pitch.

NBDag wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2019 9:03 pm What’s also really frustrating about the update released this week is that it didn’t actually specify any of the targeted return dates that the players are working to. It was effectively just confirming to us that the players are still injured, which we knew. Not giving us target return dates means 1 of 3 things IMO:
1) The idiotic “other teams might get an advantage” nonsense
2) They’re not actually setting targets for the players to work towards
3) They don’t know how long it should take for them to get fit again.

Either way it’s becoming very tiresome.

On a slightly related note, it baffles me how we are still in the minority of teams, even in this league, that aren’t using those player trackers or whatever they are under the shirts. The data it brings in is clearly very useful to those that know what to do with it, hence how widespread its usage is, yet it’s just completely neglected by us.

DaggerJoel11 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 5:40 pm In an interview after the Sutton game, Terry Harris said Luke Croll was the closest but the rest are all long-term absentees.

I would interpret that as at least two months for the likes of Balanta and Deering. I imagine House will go back to Reading without putting a Dagenham shirt on again.

Daggerfan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2019 5:57 am I’ve recently come to the conclusion that the Americans need to upgrade and improve the treatment room so that our players can get better treatment when they are injured. This would also include getting players trackers and maybe also changing the physio himself.